How Does Clinical Depression Affect Each Main Character of “The Catcher in the Rye” and “Solace of the Road”

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According to Dr. Vikram Patel (2007), deficient mental health is often associated with low academic achievement. Holly and Holden for different reasons are two dreadful students. Holden hates everybody at school because he is convinced that he is surrounded by phonies, he also claims that the only subject that he enjoys and makes an effort to get good marks, is English, consequently he is an awful student in the rest of subjects which he considers boring and useless: "That is all I know about the Egyptians. I can't seem to get very interested in them [...]. It is all right with me if you flunk me though as I am flunking everything else except English anyway" (Salinger,1951,2). Regarding Holly, she has been living in the foster home Templeton House since a very young age, so her education is not what we would call excellent: "But school, Holly. You never go. With the Aldridges you'd start fresh at a new school. A better school" (Dowd,2009,2).

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